Dar­ren Aronof­sky has a new movie com­ing out this year

Hav­ing been sus­pi­cious­ly qui­et since his crit­ic-split­ting 2014 film, Noah, writer/​director Dar­ren Aronof­sky is back with a new fea­ture under his arm. Accord­ing to Dead­line, Moth­er (styled ​‘moth­er!’) stars Jen­nifer Lawrence, Michelle Pfeif­fer, Javier Bar­dem, Domh­nall Glee­son and his less­er known broth­er, Brian.

Although no offi­cial plot syn­op­sis has been released, the sto­ry is said to cen­tre around a cou­ple whose peace­ful exis­tence is dis­rupt­ed by some unin­vit­ed guests. Para­mount Pic­tures appear to have con­fi­dence in Aronof­sky, remov­ing both World War Z 2 and a new Fri­day the 13^th remake from its slate in order to accom­mo­date Moth­er in an awards sea­son-friend­ly 13 Octo­ber release slot. We’re hope­ful that the film will pre­mière in Venice, Toron­to or one of the oth­er big autumn film festivals.

Since Noah, Aronof­sky has been linked to a num­ber of intrigu­ing projects, but sad­ly none have tak­en off. Back in 2013 he was attached to direct a series for HBO enti­tled Hob­gob­lin, an ambi­tions-sound­ing peri­od dra­ma writ­ten by Michael Chabon about a group of magi­cians and con­men in the 1940s who use their pow­er to defeat Hitler.

It was also announced that Aronof­sky will pro­duce a hor­ror-mys­tery called XOXO through his pro­duc­tion com­pa­ny Pro­to­zoa Pic­tures. The film has been list­ed as being in devel­op­ment since 2012 but could yet get the go-ahead. More recent­ly he has pro­duced the Arnold Schwarzeneg­ger thriller After­math, which is set for release this spring.

Giv­en its impres­sive cast list and promis­ing release date, Moth­er sounds like a con­scious move away from big-bud­get Hol­ly­wood epics and back towards more inti­mate, hard-hit­ting human dra­mas like Requiem for a Dream and Black Swan. If it’s any­thing like the lat­ter we cer­tain­ly won’t be complaining.